Masterpiece: Allegory of California Artist: Diego Rivera Concept: Watercolor Resist Class Mural Painting Collage Lesson: Allegory of Arizona Objective: Vocabulary: Materials: Create a class mural using the theme of Arizona. Mural, Allegory, Theme Large piece of butcher paper approximately 3 x 8, 9 x 12 white drawing paper, Pencils Erasers Crayons in dark colors Watercolor paints Brushes Trays for water Glue Alternate Materials: oil pastels, watercolor pencils, black sharpies, watercolor paper. ** Please Note ** Volunteers do not mount this project on colored construction paper all the artwork will be displayed side by side together in the form of a class mural. See Example of Arizona Allegory The theme is Arizona. The children have been studying Arizona this year in the classroom. They can draw anything from their imaginations relating to Arizona, such as a native plant or animal, flag, landscape, etc. Process: 1. View and discuss Diego Rivera s paintings Allegory of California and The Flower Seller. Ask the students to imagine and describe what Diego would paint on an Allegory of Arizona. Write some of their suggestions on the whiteboard.
2. Hand out a piece of paper to students. Ask them to draw with a pencil a picture of something that signifies Arizona to them. Tell them to make it large and fill the page we want to see the mural from across the room! 3. Outline the image with dark or bright crayons to bring out the details in their drawing. Press hard with the crayon to make thick lines that will show through the paint. 4. Using watercolor paints, fill the page with color. Set aside to dry. 5. Once the paintings have dried they can be glued to the large piece of butcher paper. 6. Ask the children to title their class mural. 7. Hang in the hallway using lots of staples, or hot glue and clothespins.
4th GRADE--PROJECT #7 Artist: Diego Rivera Masterpiece: Allegory California Lesson: Landscape/Watercolor/Crayons/Group Mural Project Samples:
Art Masterpiece We discussed the artist Diego Rivera, famous for his colorful murals, or fresco paintings, which made history come alive. In 1930 Rivera was invited to the U.S. to paint a mural in the San Francisco Stock Exchange for which he studied many months on the subject of Detroit and New York City. The paintings Allegory of California and were studied and a class mural was created. Art Masterpiece We discussed the artist Diego Rivera, famous for his colorful murals, or fresco paintings, which made history come alive. In 1930 Rivera was invited to the U.S. to paint a mural in the San Francisco Stock Exchange for which he studied many months on the subject of Detroit and New York City. The paintings Allegory of California and were studied and a class mural was created. Art Masterpiece We discussed the artist Diego Rivera, famous for his colorful murals, or fresco paintings, which made history come alive. In 1930 Rivera was invited to the U.S. to paint a mural in the San Francisco Stock Exchange for which he studied many months on the subject of Detroit and New York City. The paintings Allegory of California and were studied and a class mural was created.
DIEGO RIVERA (1886-1957) Rivera was born December 13, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. He began to draw when he was three years old. His parents were well educated and financially secure. His mother was a doctor (Obstetrician). Since Rivera loved to paint, his parents encouraged him and his dad covered the walls of their house with canvas so he could paint on them. When he was 10 years old he started going to regular school during the day and art school at night. He showed a lot of promise as an artist and the government awarded him a scholarship to study art. He developed a great love for Pre-Columbian art as a young boy in Mexico. This is the art of the Indians who were in Mexico before the Spaniards arrived. Rivera decided to go to Spain to study art with the scholarship money. He later went to Paris and in all he spent 15 years in Europe. In 1920 he returned to Mexico. The government asked him to decorate the walls of the Ministry of Public Education in Mexico City. This is when he started his great career painting murals. He is very famous for the murals that he painted and they total more than 2 ½ miles. Because of his study of the old masters in Europe, Rivera used the method of frescos. Frescos are paintings done on fresh plaster and the painting becomes part of the plaster wall. Rivera was a very large man and at times weighed more than 300 pounds. When he was painting murals he would paint sometimes for 15 hours straight and got very little sleep and didn t eat much. Some of his murals took years to complete and during this time he would often lose over 100 pounds. In 1930 he was asked to come to the U.S. to paint a mural in the San Francisco Stock Exchange. After this was completed he also painted large murals in Detroit and New York City. His second wife, Frida Kahlo, was also a well-known artist in Mexico. In 1955 he was diagnosed with cancer. He continued to work until his death in 1957 at the age of 71. Before he died he made a museum in Mexico City of all the Pre-Columbian treasures he had collected throughout the years. He wanted them to be on display so that the people of Mexico could enjoy their rich heritage.